Excerpt: DaneCounty resident Robert
Hall tells Wisconsin Watchdog he has received notice the Dane County Ethics
Board will hear his complaint at 9 a.m. on Monday, April 13, the board’s next
regularly scheduled meeting. The hearing arrives “nicely after the election so
they can go on violating the ethics law,” Hall said. (They will use the illegal
ad right through the election, but I'll bet it is scrubbed Wednesday. I assume
the ethics board will tell them "don't do it again," meaning they get
clean away. One law for the average guy, another for the powerful magnates. Welcome
to Democracy in DaneCounty. ~Bob)

Rolling Stone published quite the blockbuster story last
November about an awful gang rape at a University of Virginia
frat house. The only trouble was the story was false. Police investigated and
found no
evidence to support the story. Now even the iconic music magazine is
admitting the gig is up and formally retracting the story. Fox News reports that a "review, undertaken by
the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism at Rolling Stone's request, produced
a 12,000-word report that documented lapses in standard journalistic procedure
at every level of the magazine during the reporting and editing of the
story." But other than the retraction, it'll be business as usual -- no
one will be fired or even disciplined, and no changes will be made. Writer
(it's hard to call her a reporter) Sabrina Erdely will even continue
contributing after apologizing. When relaying a leftist narrative, sometimes a
story is just too good to check, no matter what it does to the victims -- in
this case, the falsely accused young men in the fraternity.

Excerpt: It seems like the party of “the people” can only
win by lying to “the people”. Senator Harry Reid admitted this week that he
lied to help Mr. Obama win. He, at this point, is the most honorable man in the
Democrat party. You see he is the ONLY Democrat to really come out after being
caught and basically say… yup, I did it and I got what I wanted, so sue me. He
knew the information on Obama’s opponent, Mitt Romney was false. There was no
“insider” at Romney’s company. But he, and the rest of the Dems, were OK with
lying about it.

Excerpt: Investigators say Morales was breaking into a
residence in the far southern Oklahoma
town when the homeowner was awakened and told Morales to leave. Morales
continued attempting to gain entry when he was shot by a person inside the
home. Morales died at the scene.

Excerpt: But after five years of false promises, massive
disruptions to the healthcare marketplace, enormous costs, repeated delays, and
legal challenges, the law has never been more vulnerable than it is today.
Congressional Republicans can use a budgetary procedure called “reconciliation”
to repeal Obamacare — and replace it with a market-oriented reform package that
gives patients and doctors, not government officials, control over Americans’
healthcare decisions. GOP leaders can’t afford to squander this opportunity.

Excerpt: More voters than ever feel the United States
is not aggressive enough in deporting those who are here illegally, even as
President Obama continues to push his plan to make up to five million illegal
immigrants safe from deportation. Just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters think the U.S. government
is too aggressive in deporting those who are in the country illegally. A new
Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 62% believe the
government is not aggressive enough in deporting these illegal immigrants, up
from 52% a
year ago and 56%in
November. (unfortunately, the miss-named "democratic" party
doesn't care what most voters want, on this and many other issues. ~Bob)

Excerpt: Conservative icon George Will hit the Obama
administration with not one, but two, haymakers during his time on Fox
News Sunday discussing our languid economy. The first hit came when
Will reminded viewers that this was now the second year in a row where the
Obama administration was blaming a bad economy on the fact that global warming
wasn’t severe enough!

Religion of Peace News

Worth Reading: Misplaying America’s
Hand With Iran.
The president’s desperation for a foreign-policy legacy is leading toward a bad
nuclear deal -- and a dangerous one. By Peggy Noonan

Excerpt: Barack Obama, six years into his presidency, does
not have a foreign-policy legacy – or, rather, he does and it’s bad. He has a
visceral and understandable reluctance to extend and overextend U.S. power, but
where that power has been absent, violence and instability have filled the
void. When he overcomes his reluctance to get involved, he picks the wrong
place, such as Libya,
where the tyrant we toppled was better than many of those attempting to take
his place. Syria, red lines,
an exploding Mideast, a Russian president who took the American’s measure and
made a move, upsetting a hard-built order that had maintained for a
quarter-century since the fall of the Soviet Union
– what a mess. ... Once Iran
has what used to be called the bomb, there will be a race among nearby nations
– Persian Gulf states, Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, Turkey
– to get their own. As each state builds its arsenal, there will be an
increased chance that freelancers, non-states and sub-states will get their
hands on parts of it.

Excerpt: The commandant of the
Marine Corps told lawmakers that Marines who disarmed before departing Sanaa, Yemen
during an embassy evacuation last month did so on the orders of U.S. Central
Command and State Department officials. Gen. Joseph Dunford fielded hard-edged
questions on the mission Tuesday morning from Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., during
a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee. Kline, a retired Marine
officer, is the author of a letter to the State and Defense departments
demanding detailed answers about a controversial order to Marines to destroy
their weapons and depart the country unarmed. (Every since that awful incident
was on the news, I've wondered who the hell told Marines to destroy all their
weapons, while in a foreign country with all kinds of crazies running around
with all kinds of weapons and no love of Americans. And it was the guys in the
neat suits and the striped pants plus some political generals at Central
Command that made this utterly disgraceful and needlessly humiliating decision.
Everyone who was part of that should be named, and those names should go down
in disgrace for the rest of their lives, and no one, NO ONE, should ever tell
Marines to destroy their weapons in the face of possible danger ever again. This
was sickening! --Del)

Excerpt: “Iran Agrees to Detailed Nuclear Outline,” The New
York Times headline claimed on Friday. That found an echo in the
Washington Post headline of the same day: “Iran agrees to nuclear restrictions
in framework deal with world powers." But the first thing to know about
the highly hyped “historic achievement” that President Obama is trying to sell
is that there has been no agreement on any of the fundamental issues that led
to international concern about Iran’s secret nuclear activities and led to six
mandatory resolutions by the United Nations Security Council and 13 years of
diplomatic seesaw.

Excerpt: Kenyan fighter jets have bombed positions of
militant Islamist group al-Shabab in neighbouring Somalia, a military spokesman has
told the BBC. The warplanes had targeted two camps in the Gedo region, used by al-Shabab
to cross into Kenya,
the spokesman added.

Excerpt: Forty years after the Swedish parliament unanimously decided
to change the formerly homogenous Sweden into a multicultural
country, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472%. Sweden is now number two on the list of rape
countries, surpassed only by Lesotho
in Southern Africa. ... If one looks at the
number of rapes, however, the increase is even worse. In 1975, 421 rapes were
reported to the police; in
2014, it was 6,620. That is an increase of 1,472%.

Excerpt: As the violence in Yemen escalates, American voters
continue to be skeptical about the political changes in the region brought
about by the so-called “Arab Spring” and worry they have made the United States
less safe. (Unfortunately, these are the same voters who re-elected Barack
Obama who thought the Arab Spring was wonderful, took us to war in Libya--now a
terrorist hell hole--to support it--without Congressional authorization. ~Bob)

Norway town produces
many jihadis, authorities baffled. By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.Org

Excerpt: A tense calm has returned to a village in northern Bangladesh
after an angry mob attacked a Christian couple because they were baptised,
while a Christian who carried out the baptism was beaten and lost his job,
BosNewsLife learned. Details of the February 2 violence in Gobindagonj in
Gaibandha district has just emerged with police warning local residents to halt
the violence. "Such courageous displays of support for minority Christians
are unusual from Bangladeshi authorities," commented Barnabas Fund, an
advocacy group supporting Christians in Islamic countries.